Adobe Launches Spark With Premium Features for Every Student, Free of
Charge

Adobe Spark empowers creativity and enhances digital literacy for
teachers and students in classrooms and at home

April 09, 2018 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced today that Spark for Education with
premium features and additional functionality is now available to K-12
and higher education students free of charge. This follows an announcement
during Bett 2018 and successful trials with K-12 institutes in various
school districts across North America. Normally priced at $120 per year
and available on the Spark
for Education website, Adobe Spark for Education is a fun and
frictionless storytelling Creative Cloud application that runs in any
web or mobile browser, enabling students to quickly and easily express
themselves via graphics, web stories and video to complete their school
assignments and showcase digital creativity.

Adobe’s research
has shown that jobs of the future will demand both creativity and
creative problem solving skills—two different capabilities that 97% of
educators recognize as being essential for students to learn in school.
However, the research also shows that the biggest barriers educators
currently face to teach these skills are the lack of access to necessary
tools and technologies, and the time required to teach students how to
use creative tools. Adobe Spark for Education was built to solve both of
these issues. In addition to making the application free to schools,
Adobe has also introduced named user licensing, enabling students to log
into their account and work on creative projects from any location on
any device, even from their homes. These licenses can be deployed by
K-12 schools in a way that is consistent with data privacy laws
including COPPA—the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.

"I have seen first-hand the importance of fun, easy-to-use creativity
tools in the classroom, and believe that Adobe Spark will enhance how
educators teach digital and creative-problem solving skills to open up a
range of new possibilities for students who want to express themselves,”
said Mala Sharma, vice president and general manager of Creative Cloud
product marketing and engagement, Adobe. “Access to tools and resources
is a key factor in education, and by providing Spark with premium
features to K-12 schools and colleges for free and by offering single
sign-on, Adobe is empowering educators to teach the critical skills
their students need both in the classroom and when they enter the
workforce.”

Details on how educators can get Spark for Education with premium
features for free for their school, along with Spark training and
professional development complete with a guide to using Spark in the
classroom can be found on the Spark
for Education website. Additionally, Adobe offers a free platform, the
Education Exchange, where educators can access free courses taught
by their peers and share teaching materials and curricula.

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